Banff's Sunshine Village Marks Earliest Recorded Opening, Ski Hills Gear Up for Season
Rocky Mountain Outlook
Leah Pelletier
WESTERN CANADA – Banff’s Sunshine Village received the best kind of Halloween treat last weekend.
With 20 centimeters of fresh snow blanketing Banff, Sunshine Village marked their earliest recorded opening day to date and kicked off the season as the first Canadian ski resort to welcome powder hounds back to the slopes on Sunday, November 2nd.
“In our organization’s corporate memory [it’s] the earliest date we have ever opened in the past 39, 40 years for sure,” said Kendra Scurfield, director of brand and communications at Sunshine Village.
With an original opening day planned for November 7th, Scurfield said the team rallied to get the hill operational a week earlier than anticipated.
“It’s a wonderful morale boost. Getting the mountain open is a huge undertaking and it requires quite a bit of teamwork to bring the mountain to life,” said Scurfield.
With all runs off the Strawberry Express Chairlift currently open, Scurfield says they are working to open up more terrain this week and will post updates to their website and social media.
“There were people very excited to hit Strawberry and you could almost hear the ‘eeee’s’ of excitement from the top of the gondola,” said Scurfield.
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